Each week, we profile a book, a movie, or other media that represent the diversity of the contemporary social justice movement. The Civil Rights Book Club aims to provide context and provoke discussion about today’s top social justice concerns. “ Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice” tells Colvin’s story, which includes her participation in a landmark case that successfully overturned bus segregation laws in Montgomery and Alabama and her relationship with some of the leaders of the movement. Now with a new book by Philip Hoose, Colvin can take her rightful place in the broader story of the civil rights movement. Parks, of course, went on to become a civil rights icon while Colvin has spent most of her life in relative obscurity. Fifteen-year old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a White person on March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., nine months before Rosa Parks did the same thing in the city.
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